email tracking blocker feature and a digital program apple is urging the tsa to adopt. what will they come up with next? the late show with stephen colbert is next. >> that's hat's captioning sponsored by cbs >> representative marjorie taylor greene sent a letter to president biden demanding an investigation into what she believes is anthony fauci's coverup of the origins of covid 19. she asked for answers by june 31, 2021. only one problem -- june has 30 days.

>> announcer: it's a "late show" with stephen colbert! tonight, life in the fast lane. plus stephen welcomes chris matthews and musical guest "cynthia erivo, and our uninformed correspondent bootsie plunkett, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: well, hey, there. welcome to "a late show." i'm stephen colbert. i've been off for a week, but i'm back. and so is a little lady i cal the united states of america because pandemic restrictions are lifting and folks are getting back to everything we missed: hugging, kissing, sharing a hot

dog with a stranger lady-and-the-tramp style. come on! help me here, chris! come on! ( laughter ) more coney island for me. of course, the most important sign that things are getting back to normal happens one week from tonight, when i return to te ed sullivan theater for a special show we're calling: the late show vax in action: an immunity theater production of the state of the reunion, cart: with a live body audi-audi-audience! ( laughter ) you didn't expect the hot dog to come back. why don't i have a hot dog prop. get your money's worth out of that coney.

( laughter ) america's slow crawl to normality is all thanks to the vaccine rollout. i'll tell you all about it in tonight's: "the vax-scene." (singing to "beer barrel polka") come and get your shot now this is the poke ya polka we polka while we poke ya so you don't get corona come and get your shot now this is the poke ya polka we polka while we poke ya we are the poke ya polkas ♪♪ >> thank you! very much. good night. that's all we've got! ♪♪ >> stephen: graphics get paid by the minute, right? is that why they're so long? immunizations have been so effective, that we just got this news: >> covid cases are now at the lowest point in the united states since the beginning of the pandemic. >> stephen: i'm not actually surprised. i'm just celebrating that i can

do spit takes again. enjoy the antibodies, mark. over the memorial day weekend, so many people came out to celebrate that one club manager said, it felt like the end of prohibition. of course, back then it was the end of making bathtub gin, and now it's the end of drinking gin in the bathtub. i'm gonna miss my mr. bubble gimlets. i'm serious, there's literally spittle on the lens. here you go. bring it back. bring it back. there you go. and you know what i'm not going to have on next week this time? slippers. ( laughter ) i couldn't find my shoes! so i said, ( bleep ) it, i'll wear slippers. what does it matter? i'm doing it in a broom closet. next week, i promise, this is my pledge to america, i will not wear a five-year-old pear of uggs next monday night.

it's not just nightclubs and bars re-opening. sam's club and costco have announced they're bringing back free samples. finally, americans can go back to playing our favorite grocery game: is this meat? the answer? i don't care. it's on a toothpick, and it's free. but some re-openings are a little choppier, like in the cruise industry. back at the beginning of covid, cruises became floating prisons of medical-grade despair. but royal caribbean has announced a us comeback this summer. there's only one catch: vaccinations are optional. what the what? you can't trust cruise passengers to make smart health decisions. these are people who wait in line to scoop up macaroni salad from a bin a toddler lost a flip-flop in. the reasons -- there are a lot of reasons, there many reasons the vaccines are optional is that a lot of these cruises depart from florida, where they just passed a law

that not only prohibits businesses from requiring vaccinations, but will fine companies $5,000 each time they require vaccination proof from a patron. that's a tough beat for florida cops. attention all units, we have a report that coldstone creamery is trying to keep customers alive. immediately redirect all officers away from the meth-fueled alligator knife fight. get me a brownie mixin. the first cruise is scheduled for july 2, and to ensure safety, royal caribbean is conducting simulation cruises. which i assume means testing the endurance of passengers with a shrimp test dummy. speaking of things opening up, the former president's mouth. on saturday night, "fatty kruger" gave a speech to the north carolina republican party, where he said a bunch of stuff but nobody paid attention because it looked like he wore pants backwards. let's take a peek: here he is, leaving the podium, and looking for the zipper... and... nothing.

either he shares a tailor with a ken doll, or he spends so much time yanking stuff out of his keister, it just helps to have the zipper back there. but it raised a lot of questions, like: how did he zip the pants? was his belt also on backwards? and how lucky are we that this man no longer has the nuclear codes? i'm not the only one who enjoyed the image. on twitter, the former president quickly drew comparisons to 90's child hip-hop duo famous for wearing their pants backwards, kriss kross. that's ridiculous. their initials are k-k, which is one less than the ex president prefers. but the backward pants party abruptly ended when the fact-shacklers over at snopes.com clarified, no, the former president did not wear his pants backwards. oh, then i guess we won't have a third impeachment trial now. it's a shame because they've already drafted the articles of im-pants-ment. the fact checker explained that snopes looked through photographs taken at the event and published by the visual media company getty images that

clearly show the former president on stage wearing pants with a zipper in the front. adding, how is this my job? mom, you were right. i should have worked for dad at the lumber yard. apparently, the original video is low res, but when you look at the hi res image, it's clear he's got a zipper. normally, when you pay that much attention to his crotch, you get $130,000. but this is alarming, because it can only mean one thing: something on the internet isn't true! you know folks, moving on, america's billionaires are like unicorns: rarely seen, mostly white, horny, and don't pay taxes. but there's more than one kind: your run-of-the-mill multibillionaire putters around in their personal submarine like some kind of sea peasant, and the true hyper-elites have their own space programs. i'll catch you up on the latest in tonight's edition of --

(echoing) spaaace neeeewws! billionaires in space edition! first up, amazon founder and high school science teacher having a mid-life crisis, jeff bezos. today, we found out that bezos is going to space. that is fantastic! one small step for man, one giant leap for-- what's that? he's coming back? never mind. bezos is going to be riding on the first crewed flight of the new shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, blue origin. as preparation for spaceflight, bezos has asked his warehouse workers to show him how to pee discreetly into a tube. bezos is going to go up there with his brother, which is nice, but the bezos bro space adventure will be short because, the astronauts will, experience weightlessness for nearly three minutes. or as amazon warehouse workers

call it: lunch. of course, bezos's chief billionaire rival in space exploration is spacex founder and comedic voice of a generation, elon musk. this trip means that bezos is getting to space before musk. not only that, but musk's space x had some sweet nasa contracts, but just last month following protests from jeff bezos' blue origin, nasa and spacex's $2.9 billion contract has been suspended. but musk hasn't taken it lying down. in response to bezos' protest, he tweeted can't get it up -- to orbit -- lol. can't get it up? have you seen jeff bezos? he is it up in a blue shirt. now i know what you're not asking: just why are these billion-aholes going at it like this? maybe because there are defense contracts and satellite based internet deals at stake with trillions of dollars to be made.

trillions! if one of these guys made a trillion bucks, imagine how much no taxes they would pay. in other space news, it feels like for the last month, we've been getting new hot scoops about u.f.o.s, with all kinds of unexplained objects zooming around near the us military captured in shaky, grainy footage. it's all part of the buildup to the release of an upcoming government report on u.f.o.s. it's not out yet, but there's good news: officials have been briefed on the findings, and, folks, we've got the inside scoop. grab your tinfoil and hide your brainwaves because, apparently, u.s. finds no evidence of alien technology in flying objects, but can't rule it out, either. oh, my god! the only way to have known that would be to have not read the report. come on, nasa, that's not

telling us anything. there's a reason the x-files slogan wasn't there is no evidence for the truth being out there. but we can't rule out the truth being not in here. it feels like they're just filing this report because they promised to have it ready by june. the report itself concedes that much about the observed phenomena remains difficult to explain, including their acceleration, as well as ability to change direction and submerge. well, if you can't explain it, then maybe don't turn in the report yet. you're like a high school junior: "moby dick is about a whale and a man on a boat and some stuff about knots, but the rest of the book remains difficult to explain because i didn't finish it. tony had everybody up to the lake house this weekend. call me ishmael." the only concrete assertion that the government makes is that the last 20 years of u.f.o. incidents did not originate from any american military or other advanced u.s. government technology. so it is totally american military or other advanced us government technology. because of course they're gonna lie. that's why in the 80s you never saw a government report titled: okay, you got us.

cards on the table: we built a stealth bomber look how badass this is! but they insist it's not american, and some officials believe the phenomena could have been experimental technology from a rival power, most likely russia or china. hmm, jim, can you show me a still of that footage? can you zoom in? now enhance... busted! at that altitude, his nipples must be like diamonds. we've got a great show for you tonight. my guest is chris matthews. but when we come back, our uninformed correspondent bootsie plunkett explores this summer's cicada swarm. stick around. ♪♪ ♪ ♪

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♪♪ >> stephen: hey! welcome back to "a late show," everybody. as more people get vaccinated and the country re-opens, there's so many things people are looking forward to doing again this summer -- like traveling and hugging relatives, and hearing the piercing shriek of billions of cicadas as they emerge all over the eastern united states -- because this summer marks the return of the "brood x" cicadas, which emerge every 17 years, meaning they haven't been above ground since 2004. so don't be surprised if they're still wearing trucker hats and ugg boots. the fact that these large, noisy insects crawl out of the ground every 17 years can be hard to understand. but, thankfully, we here at the late show have an expert in not understanding things. her name is bootsie plunkett. she's the mother of my field producer, jake plunkett. and she is also the late show's official uninformed correspondent. bootsie uses her unique

perspective to help us all get a little less un-informed. and, recently, jake took her to learn about these insects at new york's museum of natural history. ( cicada sounds ) >> i took my mom to the amecanri museum of natural history to see if she could conquer her fear of bugs before they make their entrance. do you like science as a subject. >> yes, i do. what's your favorite type of science. >> how you turn water into wine. that -- what? how do you turn water into wine? >> mm-hmm. i think that's a bible thing. well, the big thing today is we're going to learn about is brute cicadas. that happens every 16 or 17 years. >> they i'll come out and dig up

my dirt and fly around. >> i don't think they will ruin your lawn. >> so you have to be on to lookout. >> you hear them. they're very loud. >> i hear them in the bushes, in the summer. >> you haven't heard these. they haven't been around in 16 years. >> then what am i hearing? i don't know what you're hearing in your bushes ( hissing sound ) >> sounds like a snake. no, s cicadas. we're learning about cicadas -- pronouncing ). >> don't bring a big near me i will make your life like hell. >> time for my mom to talk about dr. jessicaware in the hall of biodiversity. >> so we're learning an and

disaydas today? >> annual ones come out every year but the periodical ones come out every 13 or 17 years. >> a long time, they must be bored down there 17 years! >> this is their life. if you think about it, their whole life, as a child, in the juvenile stage, then their adult life is just a few weeks. but 17 years in your juvenile stage, then your adult is just -- >> how long do they live for? i think it's like three, four weeks or so. >> they only live for three weeks? >> as an adult. when they come up from the ground. >> yeah. oh, they should stay there. they don't know they're going to their demise. >> but, i mean, they can't mate when they're underground. >> oh. so they have to emerge to the adult form, then they reproduce. >> you sound like you love your bugs. >> i love my bugs. buggies. i like insects.

oh. so we usually say i'm an entomologist, i work on insects. >> you operate on them? sometimes. you're a surgeon of bugs? what i study is reproductive morphology, so i have these tiny instruments and i dissect out the penises and -- >> oh, my god! like me, i had a baby squirrel -- no, i don't dissect pennies. >> you sound like me. no, no, no! i found a pinky baby squirrel in my alleyway. i didn't know what to do with it, it was going to get eaten or stepped on by somebody, so i brought it in. what you made me think about that is i had to stimulate its pennies for it to pea. i told my sister-in-law and she said, oh, now you're into master baiting ( bleep ) squirrels? they can't pea when they're first newborn, they need to be

stimulated. >> did somebody tell you that? yeah. wasn't true? >> i don't know. maybe. how do you find out. >> i went online. okay. make a long story short, yes, i did do that, and the little bubble would come out of his pennies and that was him peaking. >> after getting to reel know each other dr.ware offered to she my mom some cicadas up close. >> what is this mean looking thing? that's the cicada! >> that's a rig cicada but it's a gorgeous one, right? >> i guess. nice colored pattern, cool wings. >> i guess it's pretty. as long as it stays off me. have you loved bugs your whole life? >> i always appreciated insects for sure. i named my daughter after an insect, actually. >> you did? her name is aishna ( laughter ) >> you can't laugh at her, that's her real name.

>> no, i'm laughing at you named her after a bug! >> here is where we keep the periodical cicadas. >> drawers and drawers of them. some can be pretty large. i think i like the small ones better. >> they're big in number. there will be a trillion or. so it's good food for birds, squirrels, cats and dogs, good food for you. >> the cicadas? yeah, you could eat them. oh, no. you said you like lobster. it's probably like -- you know. >> how do you crack open a cicada? >> you take the wings off, you saw sauteé them -- >> being the good son i am, i wasn't going to let mom leave the museum without touching a few bugs. first up a giant millipede. >> thank you so much. what the hell is that? so these are millipedes

miropods. want to feel it? it almost feels like a whisper. these cannot hurt you. they cannot bite. they cannot hurt you. ( snorting ) >> there you go. you got it. how are you feeling? >> aaahhh! how are you feeling? it's good. (screams ) >> ( bleep ), ( bleep ). don't worry. you did it. >> those little legs cling to you. >> yeah. now the main event, the bug my mom fears the most, the madagascar missing cockroach. >> how are we feeling? do you want to see if you can make the hissing noise? five seconds? >> five seconds and 100 bucks. 100 bucks! i'm getting paid regardless,

bitch. >> you're good. you're totally good. it won't hurt you. there you go. you're doing it, you're doing it ( making hysterical sounds ) >> you got it! eah, yeah, yeah! aaahhh! it's still freaking me out! >> an entomologist for a day. you're living it, you're doing it. >> aaahhh! i can't believe it! okay. >> tell me when it gets too close, when it's go time. >> well, it was great talking to you today. >> announcer: i'm so glad you love insects as much as i do. >> a little bit. >> announcer: you're on the journey to it. >> it's going to grow. the love will grow. ( laughter ) hi, this is bootsie, i'm here with "a late show" with stephen

colbert. i learned so much today about is cicadas, so interesting. i also held a hissing cockroach. congratulations to me because i never thought i would do that! and it was -- i still don't like bugs. okay. bye. ♪♪ >> stephen: thank you to bootsie and thank you to dr. jessica ware and the museum of natural history. we'll be right back with chris matthews. ♪♪ - - [announcerer] grubhubb perks s give you d deals on a all the fooood that mamakes you boboogy. (upbpbeat musisic) get the e food you love witith perks frfrom... - - [group] grgrubhub! - [annououncer] grubub what y you love.e.

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chris, good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> stephen: the last time -- well, we've talked mtsz over the years. i'll get to the last time we spoke in just a moment. one of the reasons i like talking to you other than the fact you're a host and you really eat up the time, i don't have to work when you're on, it's like a vacation, but you've seen so much in washington, you've worked for tip o'neil, jimmy carter, the host of "hardball" for years, but what was your first washington job? >> i was a capitol policeman, appointed by the u.s. senator under the old pay trtrojage system, and i loved it, i worked in the office of the senator in the morning till 3:00, went on the second shift from 3:00 to 11:00. i was doing three jobs. i loved putting on my uniform and gun and doing my job. i loved the guys i worked with. >> stephen: as someone who had that as the first experience in

washington, d.c., what was it like personally for you to watch the horrific eventnts of january 6, how did that hit home for you? >> it's like seeing your church invaded. it was like being defiled, everything you believed in. i used to love -- i do love that building. whatever job i was, whether top aide to the speaker or i was a cop, i would take people to places like the british stairs, the stairs coming up toward the house of representatives met, and there are bullet holes in the ceiling still, and i said look at the bullet holes, the british came in here an burned the place in 1912. i would sit alone at night in the rotunda where the paintings are and i would think of john f. kennedy laid out after he was assassinated, i would imagine him there. i would think of lincoln giving the second inaugural address there, trying to explain the civil war when we lost 600,000 men and trying to explain that

aspennens for slavery, and he did that there. and f.m. d.r. gave his "we have nothing to fear but fear itself" there. more republicans than democrats in 1964 in that building. so much history. it's a cathedral to democracy. the 9/11 jobs tried to blow it up. they were stoppped in pennsylvania by the courageous passengers. one of the cops i worked with said i would die for this building. so i was so proud when i got to see the good pictures of these guys, mostly men, especially the african-american guy in the picture leading them in the wrong direction, remember, up the stairs? >> stephen: officer goodman. he didn't have any real weapon, he couldn't use his revolver in that situation, just so he could protect senator romney from utah getting killed maybe. >> stephen: what do you make of people who were trying to sell this off who say it was no worse than tourists in the rotunda or the statuary hall or

saying it wasn't really an insurrection, trying to downplay it because the reps know the democrats will point at it and say you can't trust these people? >> what would they have said if they had captured that crowd, the mob, had captured the vice president of the united states and god knows what do to him. they were after every member of congress. they were out for blood and everybody knows that. they were protected by their staffs and the police. that's what saved their lives. not the cause of trumpism. trump was on a march. the members of congress, democrats and republican swore an oath to the constitution. general michael flynn took an oath to the constitution, not donald trump. they have to be reminded they're owed sometimes. >> stephen: you've written a new book, as i said before, "this country," about the

historical events you lived through. when you look at the the current moment the united states is going through, what periods of leadership and history in the world come to mind for you? >> well, steve, you know, i was lucky in my life to be at the center of the action so much, the fights. i mean, i was on the helicopter when jimmy carter was going down to defeat that morning. he lost the election by 10 points. i was with tip o'neil every morning, the great speech. i was at the berlin wall on the communist side when the wall opened up and i interviewed people. i'll never forget interviewing a young guy in his 20s, looked like he was at berkeley in the '60s. i said, what does freedom mean to you today, the wall coming down? he said talking to you, because it was a country that was not free and they couldn't talk to people like me. i was in south africa when nelson mandela, one of the

greatest people of our time, encouraged the people of south africa to vote. he said we're not going to do this through a resolution -- >> stephen: i think we have a photo of you and desmond tutu. >> desmond tutu to my left and a south african cameraman. look at the line on the back of voters. it's like from horizon to horizon. that happened because one person, nelson mandela, said we're going to have an election in this country, everybody gets to vote, and i'm not coming out of prison out of 20 years until you legalize the aanc and the communist party, he wouldn't leave prison so he could have a real election. he said we're going to make it work, this democracy. i think of the people waiting in line in africa without a cup of tea, water, without a place to go to the-bedroom and i think of the people who don't take democracy seriously in this

country. that's what they want. we've had an election every year since 1788. we're the first republic, and it's always worked. but we always counted on people who lost elections, just like when you played tag as a kid, you say i'm it, i lost, and to stand before their people and look them in the eye and say i lost, the other person won, and under that system, that person's president now. and trump wouldn't do that one honorable act. hillary clinton had to do that at the pennsylvania hotel when she lost, a shocking loss and she had to say it. mitt romney, john mccain, al gore, everyone stands up and says i lost, in this democracy. that's what matters. some people like hillary clinton got more votes and they still said i lost because the electoral college governs victory. that is the admirable thing. i love concession speeches because it shows the heart of people who want to be in

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♪♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody! we're back with the author of "this country," chris matthews. in the book, you're very candid about when you left "hardball" after 20 years, you had -- you would reveal that you made inappropriate comments about the appearance of a female journalist, and you went on the air and you said, yeah, i did, it was the wrong thing to do, and i'm out of here. did people at the network know that you weren't going to fight this? did it surprise people there? >> well, there was a report that i comple mend -- it shouldn't say that -- i commented on a person's appearance. it was a four-year-old story but it was accurate as hell.

i accepted the truth. in fact i crcredited in a couple of commentaries, i said, it's all true, don't plame the messenger. i did it, i own this, nobodydy s responsible for my trouble, i did: i said she was right, the reporter, and i want everybody to know who thinks they're on my side on this. my side is the truth and my side is accepting responsibility. i said it. i don't want anybody fighting for me oor fighting her or anybody else. i think you've got to be honorable. i always take credited for being candid and saying things i shouldn't say. but part of candor is being honest and saying, yeah, i did it. the next day i told the president of my network i'm leaving, and on that monday night, they let me give a speech to the people telling them i miss them. i did an old line from victor, it's not good buy but till we meet again. and i wanted to say them till we meet again. i miss people. people come up and say i miss you. i say i miss you, too!

i wish i were still on the show. but i'm 75. sooner or later you have to walk out the door and concede the fact you're old. but old dogs can learn new tricks as tipp o'neil and i said. >> stephen: a lot of people said i would love to hear what chris had to say about the election. what november 5 was hen poisoned the national consciousness with his claims and the 7th when he lost. how much did you want to talk about this election because you have such perspective on this? >> well, we had a wonderful turnout. we had to look at the good side. trump got 74 million votes but biden got 8 is million. 71 million votes is not a squeaker. it's not like nixon, you could argue about the chicago or

texas' count, you could argue about that. he sat down with jack kennedy in keybiscane, florida, they hada bottle of coke and talked about it and nixon made it clear kennedy won. and that's what a noble person do and trump has not been noble. part of it is the man has no knowledge of american history, no love for it, he doesn't know the rules of life politically. i love democracy, our system, i worked on the inside, i played the game. i was not a virgin about it, i knew how to play hard ball politics. i pulled some numbers when i torqued for tipp o'neil. i did things like calling out the chief engineer of the republican leader when he was attacking infrastructure and i got a list of all bridges below safety code and tipp went on the floor and read the names and addresses of the bridges in front of the republican leader -- in your own district, the school buses have to drive over the bridges that are rickety and dangerous why don't you fix them? >> stephen: why isn't somebody

doing that in the senate now? >> politics can be tough and fun and honest and i loved doing that. in the middle to have the night i organized a union of steelworkers to go to the white house at 4:00 in the morning and have a big demonstration and i made sure i had donuts and coffee for them in case they said it's both party's fault, it's one party's fault. >> stephen: the book is "this country," full of stories just like that from the man chchris matttthews. back with h a performrmance bby "cynthia erivo. ♪♪ use their skills. [spoon clinking in mug] the bulleit frontier fund is making a commitment to help bartenenders keep doing whwhat they do best. [spoon clilinking in g glass] let't's keep our bartenenders pouriring. (vo) jack was one of six million pets in animal shelters [spoon clilinking in g glass] in need of a home. he found it in a boy with special needs,

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>> stephen: that's it for "'a' late show." tune in tomorrow when my guests will be clive owen and comedian ziwe. james corden is next, goodnight. ♪♪ captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ the late late show, oh, oh the late late show, ooh ♪ the late late show, oh, oh